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NI man mistake Italian flag for Irish

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  • #92
    Cossax
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    Chamone MF wrote: »
    There is white blue and red in the same order as the Russian flag.
    Stevie is that you???!!!

    It's quite obviously Polish, there's only 2 colours on it - white and red.


  • #93
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    woodoo wrote: »
    This was one of his tweets:

    Back on the twitter. Overjoyed at the demise of the terrorist-supporting Gaddafi!


    I'd be overjoyed if the name gadaffi was replaced with willie frazer

    He also said he hoped Maginness was next!


  • #94
    Chamone MF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 121 ✭✭Chamone MF


    Cossax wrote: »
    It's quite obviously Polish, there's only 2 colours on it - white and red.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVvkjuEAwgU


  • #95
    Crooked Jack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,679 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    biko wrote: »
    It was clarified vandalised.

    FYP


  • #96
    Crooked Jack
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    Dangerous Man wrote: »
    I don't think I was clear enough in my earlier post - I'll explain a little more clearly this time.

    I think the topic can be discussed alright; I'm not saying that we should only discuss global topics.

    What I'm getting at is that no one in the entire world cares about this ridiculous situation except a handful of people who cannot see how stupid it is. I'm not having a go at you for bringing it up, more the situation itself. It's quite pathetic.

    I think people are interested because of how unbelievably stupid it is. Nobody is forcing you to read it.


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  • #97
    BUBBLE WRAP
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    Ha, I could understand if it was the iovory coast falg as its glod white and green.


  • #98
    woodoo
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    He is colour blind as well as being stupid.


  • #99
    BUBBLE WRAP
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    woodoo wrote: »
    He is colour blind as well as being stupid.

    Poor him.


  • #100
    Dudess
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    HavingCrack wrote: »
    I feel sorry for Frazer more than anything. He's clearly gone completely loopy and paranoid. Honestly-a secret IRA training camp? He's either deliberately attempting to inflame the situation or he really believe's what he is saying. I'm not sure which is worse to be honest.
    Being mentally ill and actually believing it is fair enough - not something one can control. But he's still a hate-filled bigot too.


  • #101
    Dubhlinner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 456 ✭✭Dubhlinner


    This same clown went apesh*t before because he thought British passports in northern ireland had Irish on them.

    Turned out it was Scots Gaelic and is on all British passports.

    As has been pointed out this guy suffered horrifically at the hands of the IRA and is understandably grief stricken. Though lets be realistic here - that in no way justifies calling a school a terrorist training ground for having an Irish flag. Its just comical that it wasn't even an Irish flag to begin with


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  • #102
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,623 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    The fact that he has a band of knuckle-draggers constantly egging him on and showing him support is the saddest part.

    The man's a cretin.. he uses the past victims of sectarianism as a tool to perpetuate that very same thing. I don't buy into the idea that he is justified in what he does just because of what he has personally been through. Many people lost loved ones and suffered terribly during the troubles, but rather than using their names and memories to preserve the divide between communities, they use them as the main reason for tearing down those divides, and the memories of the past serve as a reminder of why that sectarian history should be moved away from and never be repeated.


  • #103
    woodoo
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    Campaigner for justice for victims of the IRA's campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Protestant people of Northern Ireland.

    That is his headline on his twitter page. No mention of Catholics or anyone else. He is a bigot for sure.


  • #104
    Dostoevsky
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    LordSutch wrote: »
    It seems like an easy mistake to make, three flags on a Nationalist school.... but is it not the case that he simply made a massive 'faux pas' by mistaking the Italian Tricolour (in the centre on the tallest pole), for an Irish Tricolour (subtle difference)?.... it still doesn't explain the pure hatred aimed at him in this thread!

    If loyalists ever wanted to create an online rapid reaction force to defend all their bigotry, you'd certainly be a leading contender for running the training school (without a tricolour of any description, of course).
    LordSutch wrote: »
    Can't stand Ferris and everything he stands for.

    This, I'm sure, has caused ripples of surprise across Boards.ie.


  • #105
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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    Dubhlinner wrote: »
    This same clown went apesh*t before because he thought British passports in northern ireland had Irish on them.

    Turned out it was Scots Gaelic and is on all British passports.

    As has been pointed out this guy suffered horrifically at the hands of the IRA and is understandably grief stricken. Though lets be realistic here - that in no way justifies calling a school a terrorist training ground for having an Irish flag. Its just comical that it wasn't even an Irish flag to begin with

    Actually, they do have a little bit - the prase "Ta 32 leathanach Saturday phas seo" appears at the back, and all the categories (notai, sloinne reamhainm (neacha), Dara breithe, etc.) are all translated into all 22 offical langues. Where's that twitter address?

    (Apologies for lack of fadas/fadai)

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #106
    Dudess
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    Dostoevsky wrote: »
    If loyalists ever wanted to create an online rapid reaction force to defend all their bigotry, you'd certainly be a leading contender for running the training school (without a tricolour of any description, of course).



    This, I'm sure, has caused ripples of surprise across Boards.ie.
    Not that such loyalists would have any time for him, being Irish and all.


  • #107
    Dyr
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    Dubhlinner wrote: »
    As has been pointed out this guy suffered horrifically at the hands of the IRA and is understandably grief stricken.

    The guy didnt suffer horrifically at the hands of the provos, they never did anything directly to him.

    They shot a bunch of UDR and RUC men who were related to him, slightly different.


  • #108
    Doc Ruby
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    Lol. Nothing really more to add, just a general all round lol.


  • #109
    LordSutch
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    Dubhlinner wrote: »
    As has been pointed out this guy suffered horrifically at the hands of the IRA and is understandably grief stricken.
    Bambi wrote: »
    The guy didnt suffer horrifically at the hands of the provos, they never did anything directly to him.

    They shot a bunch of UDR and RUC men who were related to him, slightly different.

    Willie Frazer relavent background.

    His father, Bertie, was shot dead by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 30 August 1975.

    Over the next ten years four other members of Frazer's family were murdered by the Provisional IRA.

    Another uncle of Frazer's who was a member of the UDR was then wounded in a gun attack by the IRA.

    Now before the usual suspects get all hot and bothered, I am not defending Willie Frazer, I am just saying that this catalogue of murders of his family members may have some bearing on the way he now is (with Bigoted & Crazed ideas). Suggest that people ignore (& pity) him in future.


  • #110
    Dudess
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    Agreed, but it doesn't mean people can't criticise his attitude.


  • #111
    A Dub in Glasgo
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    Fraser is a full hard on bigot. He should be charged with incitement to violence / hatred*

    (*whatever one they can make stick)


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  • #112
    true
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    As someone else said, in fairness it does like the irish flag from a distance..look at the photo....and it was raised higher than the other 2 flags.

    Consider Willie Frazers background and where he may have seen the tricolour before. In N. Ireland, he associates - rightly or wrongly - the tricolour as the symbol not just of a foreign state, but more than that - the flag was hijacked by the PIRA, was used a a symbol of PIRA support in certain areas of south Armagh etc, and was used to cover coffins of PIRA men in the north etc. Men who he considered terrorists, and men who killed 5 or 6 members of his own family inc his father. I'm not defending Fraiser either, just pointing out the catalogue of murders and long years of intimidation of his family members ...may have coloured his opinions of the flag of his neighbouring state, which was used as a symbol by those who killed his family.
    HavingCrack wrote: »
    I feel sorry for Frazer more than anything. He's clearly gone completely loopy and paranoid.
    I agree.


  • #113
    Doc Ruby
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    true wrote: »
    Men who he considered terrorists, and men who killed 5 or 6 members of his own family inc his father.
    All solid pillars of the community, no doubt.


  • #114
    Nodin
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    LordSutch wrote: »
    Willie Frazer relavent background.

    His father, Bertie, was shot dead by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 30 August 1975.

    Over the next ten years four other members of Frazer's family were murdered by the Provisional IRA.

    Another uncle of Frazer's who was a member of the UDR was then wounded in a gun attack by the IRA.

    Now before the usual suspects get all hot and bothered, I am not defending Willie Frazer, I am just saying that this catalogue of murders of his family members may have some bearing on the way he now is (with Bigoted & Crazed ideas). Suggest that people ignore (& pity) him in future.

    ....of course you aren't. Not associate of the notorious sectarian UVF mid Ulster brigade and the LVF and hater of anything catholic, let alone Republican, Willie Frazer....

    I'll just put these here for contrast

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=78751745&postcount=51

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=67844666&postcount=126

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=74674356&postcount=437


  • #115
    Nodin
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    true wrote: »
    As someone else said, in fairness it does like the irish flag from a distance..look at the photo....and it was raised higher than the other 2 flags.

    Consider Willie Frazers background and where he may have seen the tricolour before. In N. Ireland, he associates - rightly or wrongly - the tricolour as the symbol not just of a foreign state, but more than that - the flag was hijacked by the PIRA, was used a a symbol of PIRA support in certain areas of south Armagh etc, and was used to cover coffins of PIRA men in the north etc. Men who he considered terrorists, and men who killed 5 or 6 members of his own family inc his father. I'm not defending Fraiser either, just pointing out the catalogue of murders and long years of intimidation of his family members ...may have coloured his opinions of the flag of his neighbouring state, which was used as a symbol by those who killed his family.

    Willie doesn't have a problem with terrorists, per se, just Republican ones. Or catholic ones.


  • #116
    fasttalkerchat
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    For the record his father and some (if not all) of his family members who were killed were nasty pieces of work. The worst type of loyalists operated in that area. They would regularly pick up Catholics off the street. They even stabbed two protestants in Willie's pub in Tangragee for allegedly making negative remarks about a UVF man.
    As much as we all like a laugh at him, he has a dangerous side too. He applied to have a gun a while back (thankfully rejected because of loyalist links).


  • #117
    true
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    Doc Ruby wrote: »
    All solid pillars of the community, no doubt.

    the murdered members of his family were (I assume) law abiding citizens, unless you have any information that they were not? links?


  • #118
    fianna saor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166 ✭✭fianna saor


    true wrote: »
    the murdered members of his family were (I assume) law abiding citizens, unless you have any information that they were not? links?

    oops! looks like you just got in there after post #116


  • #119
    Doc Ruby
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    true wrote: »
    the murdered members of his family were (I assume) law abiding citizens, unless you have any information that they were not? links?
    fasttalkerchat wrote: »
    For the record his father and some (if not all) of his family members who were killed were nasty pieces of work. The worst type of loyalists operated in that area. They would regularly pick up Catholics off the street. They even stabbed two protestants in Willie's pub in Tangragee for allegedly making negative remarks about a UVF man.
    As much as we all like a laugh at him, he has a dangerous side too. He applied to have a gun a while back (thankfully rejected because of loyalist links).
    .


  • #120
    Nodin
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    fasttalkerchat wrote: »
    For the record his father and some (if not all) of his family members who were killed were nasty pieces of work. The worst type of loyalists operated in that area. They would regularly pick up Catholics off the street. They even stabbed two protestants in Willie's pub in Tangragee for allegedly making negative remarks about a UVF man.
    As much as we all like a laugh at him, he has a dangerous side too. He applied to have a gun a while back (thankfully rejected because of loyalist links).

    .....they lured them out of there, if I recall. The full details are on the web.

    The truth of the matter is that to get justice for his son, one of the fathers had to go to the nationalist community and Gerry Adams for help. Why not Willie Frazer? Why not indeed.


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  • #121
    Fenian Army
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    His real problem is that there is a "catholic" school in the area, and by etension, catholics.


    Wee Willie is a gob****e


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